Robbie Savage - firey marcher and owner of the most ludicrous barnet in the Premiership - who recently walked out on Birmingham City in favour of Blackburn as it was nearer his beloved Wrexham.
Cue much glee in the tabloid press as the RAC confirmed that Blackburn is several miles further from Wrexham than Birmingham 
Sorry, I can’t give you King Arthur, even if he really existed. The Welsh qua Welsh didn’t exist back then. He was a member of an ethnic group whose linguistic descendants include the people we call Welsh today. That’s as close as you can get, really. But the latest scholarship I’ve seen puts him physically in places like Dumnonia (Cornwall) and the Borders. You might as well try to call him a Scot or a Cornishman or a Breton as you would a Welshman.
Nice examples! Now, I have a slight hi-jack for you. Does anyone want to expand on the Uncyclopedia article on
Wales?
For a good example of a good post, see Scotland.
My family is from Wales, but I am not famous. My college rugby coach played on the Welsh national team in the '70s, I guess that is a sort of celebrity.
But , Scott_plaid, what is with your obsession with the Welsh?
I saw a sig pic once that had some welsh celebs on it, and I thought it would be nice if I could remember who they were, but I couldn’t, so I asked a question here, and here we are.
Wondered if I would get away with that one 
My reasoning being that the earliest written mention of Arthur is in the Welsh Triads of the mid 13th century and that the ‘Arthurian legends’ as we know them come to us via the ‘courtly love’ adaptations of local legends by Eleanor of Aquitaine’s troubadours in the late 12th century.
THe Cornish and the Welsh are siblings separated by the arrival of the Saxons and the Bretons are 'the Welsh who could swim", perhaps I should have said he was Brythonic ?
Alternatively we could call him a Scot but then the people of Strathclyde spoke, and were referred to as, Welsh until well into 12th century. (Actually this is the justification most of us use for our “St. Patrick was a Welshman” claim too 
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I went to school with current Welsh Women’s Rugby centre Rhian Williams - she plays for Wasps at club level, I believe.
I’m not famous either, nor from Wales, although my other half has more than a whiff of leek about her.
Hopkins is from Port Talbot.
Bonnie Tyler was totally eclipsed by placenta when she was born Gaynor Hopkins in Wales.
I’m amazed that no-one has yet mentioned T. E. Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia (born in Tremadoc).
Jan Morris, one of my favorite travel writers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/profile/profile_jan_morris.shtml
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Few have enjoyed a life as full or as colourful as Jan Morris.
Born a man, he fathered five children before having a sex-change operation in 1972.
But, besides such headline-grabbing details, she has been at one time or another, an Oxford chorister, Welsh bard, military intelligence officer, newspaper journalist and critically-acclaimed author.
Born James Humphrey Morris in Somerset in 1926, he was educated at Lancing College in Sussex. He knew from his earliest years that he should have been born a girl: not homosexual but simply “wrongly equipped”.
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He spent the final years of World War Two in Palestine and Italy as an intelligence officer with the 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers, an experience which he greatly enjoyed.
Following demob in 1949 he went to Oxford University, where he combined his English studies with editing the student magazine, Cherwell.
1949 also saw his marriage to Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a tea planter. She knew, and understood, his belief that he was a woman and the couple had five children together, one of whom died aged two months. Despite his sex change, the couple still live together extremely harmoniously.
Her travel essays are are impeccable.
The amazon.com display for her works.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-2001614-1592011
Nice examples! Thank you.
I thought I could mention thatthe new Who show could be said to be born in Wales, inasmuch as It is being produced by BBC Wales, headquartered in Llandaff, Cardiff.
Photos of the TARDIS outside of the HQ can be found here.
Jones The Steam, Dai The Station and Idris The Dragon.
Their middle names really were ‘The’.